The Python perf module is a toolkit to write, run, analyze and modify benchmarks.

Features:

• JSON format to store benchmark results
• Command line tools to display, analyze and modify benchmarks
• Statistical tools to analyze the distribution of benchmark results
• compare command supports comparison between multiple benchmark suites (made of multiple benchmarks)
• timeit command for quick but reliable Python microbenchmarks

Links:

• perf project homepage at GitHub (code, bugs)
• perf documentation
• Download latest perf release at the Python Cheeseshop (PyPI)
• License: MIT

perf supports Python 2.7 and Python 3. Install perf on Python 3:

python3 -m pip install perf